goals

There's a lot of talks about race and representation in the media today. I think the media is making it a bigger deal than it should be. Some of the interviews I've read recently had me questioning th...

Life is a cycle. Not only because we follow 12 months, 365 days, 7 days a week... But because we are made of phases, moments, and crises.
Then comes the last month of the year and everyone begins to g...

While I was growing up, I discovered many of my now interests. I even had passions! At an early age as six years old I loved to dance. LOVED. ADORED, even. From ballet to hip-hop. I took classes until...

I can't recall how many nights it's been since those weird dreams, but I remember them so vividly that it's like I had them last night.
In the first one, my teeth were falling out. I recall that dream...

Hi, my name is Jonathann Richardson, and I haven’t written anything in a very long time. I believe you should always do what you love. If there’s that one thing you’ve been dying to do, do it! This life is too short to not do things that make you happy. This may be a corny saying, but “everybody dies but not everybody lives.”
One year ago I was serving in a local restaurant. If you’ve ever worked in the food service industry, you know the money can be very beneficial. It definitely was for me, a...

I recently read Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, and The Art of War written by Chinese Military General and Philosopher Sun Tzu. It got me thinking deeply about the way that success and victory, which are of ...

There are an endless amount of excuses for not getting out and exploring more while having a busy work life. These days most jobs don't just finish at 5 PM when you leave the office, and days off occa...

I first became interested in blogging when I read an article about freelancing; it told me that blogging was the best way to go, but I had never read, written, or even really heard about it. What was ...

Whenever the words "comfort zone" pop up, someone invariably asks what it means. It's really quite simple: each of us has a way of doing things that's comfortable to us. From the time we get up (in fa...

If my world was on fire, I wouldn't know because every day is a California wildfire in my eyes. Every day is ticking. Time is a ticking. I'm getting older and I have big pipe dreams and...
No skill se...

"Life works in mysterious ways." Ever heard that before? How about "God works in mysterious ways?" I have. In fact, I still hear it and even see it on inspirational memes on social media. When I was y...

"As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." A famous quote from a famous film, but without a doubt a mantra that many have lived by their whole life. Why a gangster? because t...

"You are wasting your time... That is not going to get you anywhere... Why are you bothering to do that?"
I heard these phrases so many times growing up. It seemed like no matter what I was doing, it ...

To begin, it would be prudent for us to start with a definition of the aforementioned concept. Autotelic is defined as “having an end or purpose in itself”; someone with an Autotelic Personality is de...

There are so many things no one is talking about and so much no one feels they can address. I've had a few weeks of feeling blah. Work has been slow and I've been finding it harder to stay focused. A ...

There is something in my brain that doesn’t allow me to work as hard as I would like to. This is very clearly an excuse but just roll with me on this one. Have you ever had it where you wake up one mo...